Word from NAB is that there will be a memorial to Tack Nail, the late, great media reporter, at next week’s convention in Las Vegas. It will be a vacant chair in the press room, accompanied by pictures of Nail, according to NAB spokesman and former media scribe Dennis Wharton.
Tack Nail: Reporter, Character, One Of A Kind
Dawson “Tack” Nail, long-time executive editor of Warren Communications News and Communications Daily, died March 25. Here, William O’Shaughnessy, president-CEO of Whitney Radio, parent company of WVOX-AM and WRTN-FM Westchester, N.Y., offers some personal reflections on the man who was one of the most prominent reporters covering broadcasting and telecommunications in Washington for the past 50 years.
Nail was a journalist’s journalist, covering the Washington media scene for Television Digest and Communications Daily. He was known as a penultimate Washington insider and an occasional prankster.
